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Day 169, or June 18. How long is forever? Our thoughts today are rooted in Psalm 90,

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verse 10. Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures.

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First, the big picture surrounding this verse. The majority of Psalms in this section of

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the book of Psalms are anonymous. But there is also a very special one, which is attributed

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to Moses. It's Psalm 90. It's rather ironic that Moses lived to be 120 years old, and

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yet he declares that seventy or eighty is the lifespan we should expect. There is added

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significance when you consider that traditionally Moses wrote the book of Genesis, too. There

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is a lot of talk about how many of us will live to be 100. Currently it's as high as

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one in six. Even more remarkable is the news from a Cambridge University professor of genetics,

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who declared that there could be a chance of a hundred. He declared that the probability

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of a hundred is higher than one in six. He declared that the probability of a hundred

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in six is higher than one in six. He also declared that there could be a thousand.

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He declared that there could be a thousand in the 60s who could survive today. That puts

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Methuselah into perspective because he died at a mere 969 years old. However, are we missing

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a vital point here? Isn't quality of life more important than quantity of life? When

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we think of life, we think of a quality of life that lasts forever, but a substantially

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higher quality of life that lasts forever. Heaven will not simply be an extension of

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life today, but life in a different dimension. Or, as the apostle Paul recalls in 2 Corinthians

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chapter 12 verse 4, I was caught up to paradise and heard things so astounding that they cannot

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be words. That's only what he heard. We can't imagine what he saw. The dream of

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immortality, which was planted there by God, is at the root of this debate. Put your trust

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in living forever in the flesh and you will die forever. Trust in Christ and you will

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live forever. You choose. You will find more information by listening to Day 21 again.